I love your work. You're work on the 2nd Foundation trilogy was great too. I like your ideas about how society can be changed, and how you use your fame to make people aware of ideas of how things can get better or unfair laws that are trying to be passed.
Given the speed of technology, with robots, 3d printing of things and even organs I believe we're heading towards a society where in a few generations money won't really make sense.
Q1 - Do you think humans as a species could survive in a world where there is no scarcity?
Q2 - Will the pursuit of wisdom ever have a place in the world?
Q3 - What is the biggest failure of people to take advantage of technology or inappropriate use of technology in your opinion? (internet -> Facebook for example)
SETI question - recently our wireless communication methods have gone from single channel to spread spectrum. If you really wanted to send a signal to another planetary star system, how would you do it? How much power, what kind of signal, etc.
Even if we had World War III and destroyed ourselves with nukes, would that be enough to get noticed on a cosmic scale? If one of the planets we've seen with our telescopes blew itself up in such a manner, could we detect it?
We can listen, but can we speak?
BTW, I've heard you had a new book out but the trailer makes me want to read it a lot. That's really surprising that a youtube video makes me want to read a book... well - a specific book.
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I love your work. You're work on the 2nd Foundation trilogy was great too. I like your ideas about how society can be changed, and how you use your fame to make people aware of ideas of how things can get better or unfair laws that are trying to be passed.
Given the speed of technology, with robots, 3d printing of things and even organs I believe we're heading towards a society where in a few generations money won't really make sense.
Q1 - Do you think humans as a species could survive in a world where there is no scarcity?
Q2 - Will the pursuit of wisdom ever have a place in the world?
Q3 - What is the biggest failure of people to take advantage of technology or inappropriate use of technology in your opinion? (internet -> Facebook for example)
SETI question - recently our wireless communication methods have gone from single channel to spread spectrum. If you really wanted to send a signal to another planetary star system, how would you do it? How much power, what kind of signal, etc.
Even if we had World War III and destroyed ourselves with nukes, would that be enough to get noticed on a cosmic scale? If one of the planets we've seen with our telescopes blew itself up in such a manner, could we detect it?
We can listen, but can we speak?
BTW, I've heard you had a new book out but the trailer makes me want to read it a lot. That's really surprising that a youtube video makes me want to read a book... well - a specific book.
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